"I just don't understand what I did to deserve this." Mike chomped on his chips, Cassie gave him an offended look at the noise.

"Nothing. Nothing. That's my whole point." Lucas spoke, sitting next to Cassie in the chair. "You are the victim here."

"I know. It's just, why is she treating me this way?" Mike listed on.

"She said why!" Cassie defended El.

"What did I do wrong?! What did I do wrong?!" Mike repeated himself, Cassie rolled her eyes.

"Mike, stop. Relax." Lucas cut in, using Cassies shoulders to stand up.

"Mike, it's obvious you've made El feel as though she is stuffed down into a small space, ripping and wheezing for freedom." Cassie reenacted what seemed to be her trying to climb up from somewhere. "Just apologize and don't do it again."

"Apologize for what!" Mike yelled.

Lucas yelled at him next. "Mike, stop asking rational questions."

"I know, I know, you're right." Mike sighed, nodded his head. "Because women act on emotion and not logic."

Cassie looked over in disbelief.

"Precisely." Lucas agreed. "It's a totally different species."

"Would you both shut up!" Cassie cut in. "How are you going to sit here, wilting away and sinking hopelessly into your worn out coach, yelling about the fact they you were dumped, then have the nerve to say women are emotional?"

"Guys, it's ready!" Will called, looking back to then.

"Will, not right now." Lucas sighed.

"They broke up with you. What else is there to talk about?" Will shot his way with an annoyed look.

"Tons." Lucas argued .

"Yeah, we're trying to solve the great mystery of the female species. Cassie is all we've known and she's not really a girl." Mike nodded as Cassie threw her walkman at him. "Ow!"

"I am a girl!" she stood up. "Why does everyone keep acting like this? Not girl enough to be invited to the mall with El and Max and not girl enough to spend my days laid up in a basement with my guy friends?"

"Cas, you are a girl." Lucas rubbed her shoulders. "I know you're a girl."

Mike answered him with a loud burp. "Dude, you can smell the nacho cheese."

"I got that beat." Lucas spoke up.

"What?" Mike asked him oddly.

"Oh, no." Will shook his head.

Cassie fell on to the ground to hide her face

"Cassie?" Lucas walked into the bathroom to see her in the mirror. "What are you doing?"

She looked at him oddly. "Do I look like a boy?"

"What?" he rubbed his eyes, sleeping hard before realizing she was no longer on the beanbag anymore. "No."

"So why does everyone think i'm not girl enough?" she gave a hurt look. "It hurts my feelings, Lucas."

"Mike was just being a jerk, you are a girl." he sat on the counter as she leaned on the wall. "You were just the only girl in our friend group for so long, sometimes we forget that there's things that we do that we definitely shouldn't infront of girls."

"Okay, but what about Max and El?"she looked up at him with a frown. "They didn't think I was girl enough to hang out with the."

"I don't think that's what happened. Hopper and Max live close, I think they just met up on the way." he tried to make her feel better with a shake of his head. "Besides, who cares about them when you get to hang out with me?"

Cassie cracked a minor grin. "I guess being in your presence, spending my worthy and longing day accompanying you is better then a girls day."

"See, I told you." he jumped off the counter. "Now, get out. I have to pee and I know you're a girl so i'm not going to infront of you."

Cassie fell off the bean bag early that morning, Lucas doing the same as they fell ontop of each other. Medieval music played as the trio all gave a yell. Will smiled, stood in a purple cape with his stick in hand.

"What are you doing?" Lucas gave him an insane look, getting off Cassie.

"Yeah, Will, can you turn down the music?" Mike held his ears.

"Please address me by my full name!" Will announced.

"Will, it's terribly and soul crushingly early." Cassie looked pleadingly at him.

"My full name!" Will hit the ground with the stick.

"Oh, my God." Mike rubbed his eyes. "Okay, Will the Wise, can you please turn down the music?"

"That is not music." Will said back. "That is the sound of destiny!"

"I have seen into the future, and i've seen that today is a new day, a day free of girls!" Will announced, the early morning light shined through the basement. "Except Cassie."

"What is happening right now?" Lucas spoke in confused, his hat hanging off his head.

"Will, come on." Mike begged.

"A tribe of villagers are under threat from an evil force from the swamps of Kuzatan." Will spoke as he leaned down next to the board. Cassie slowly sat up, popping her back.

"Will, it's so early." Mike continued on.

"Is it early, Michael?" Will stood up with a questionable look toward the pair. "Tell that to the villagers crying for your help, the children frightened, they cannot sleep. Are you truly going to let them perish? Or are you going to come to their recuse and become the heroes you were always meant to be?"

"Uhhh." Cassie face planted on the ground. "Mother nature and I are going to throw down for letting the sun rise on her beauty today."

"Uh, can I at least take a shower first?" Lucas gave a questionable look.

"Do you guys hear that?" Will spoke after the sky went dark, the rain clouds taking over. "It sounds like...thunder. But, no, wait! That's not thunder. It's...a horde of juju zombies! Sir Mike, your action."

Mike gave a bored look toward the two. "What should I do?"

Lucas shrugged. "Attack?"

"Okay, I attack with my flail." Mike picked up the board game piece.

"Whoosh! You miss." Will spoke up again. "Your flail clanks the stone, the zombie horde lumbers toward you, and-"

He rolled the dice. "-the juju bites your arm. Flesh tears! Aah! Seven points of damage."

"Oh, no, my arm." Mike faked pain and shock. "Cas, look at my arm."

"So much blood. It's such a terrible sight, my heart feels painfully broken for your poor limb." Cassie spoke, leaning back in her chair with a yawn.

Will looked toward Lucas. "Sir Lucas, the zombie horde roars! Do you fight back or do you run?"

Before he could say anything, the phone rung from the wall, making them all look over. Will stood up. "No! It's a distraction! A trap. Do not answer it."

"What if it's the girls?" Mike looked in a panic.

"Wait, we need to finish the game." Will pointed out.

"All right. I'll use my torch to set fire to the chambers, sacrificing ourselves, killing the jujus, and saving the Khuisar. We all live on as heroes in the memories of the Kalamar." Mike spoke up with a shrug.

"Victory." Lucas hummed, high fiving Mike.

"Okay. Fine." Will threw the stick down, yanking the cape and hat off. "You guys win. Congratulations."

"Will, I was just messing around." Mike tried to defend himself. "Hey, let's finish for real. How much longer is the campaign?"

"Just forget it, Mike." Will said bitterly, grabbing his bag.

"Will!" Cassie called for him to come back.

"We wanna keep playing." Mike tried to come to his rescues.

"Y-Yeah, totally." Lucas agreed quickly.

"I said forget it, Mike, okay?" Will looked his way in anger. "I'm going home."

"Don't go into the rain, it'll be hard to see and end so badly." Cassie pointed out.

"Come on, Will." Lucas tried.

"Move!" Will shoved him out of the way.

Mike ran after him, leaving Lucas and Cassie as she hugged her knees. "Want to see who can catch the most marshmallows in their mouth?"

Lucas smiled. "Took the words right out my mouth."

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